A federal judge on Tuesday denied a watchdog group’s request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) filed its lawsuit in February, challenging the Trump administration’s claim that DOGE records are covered by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and are therefore not available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The lawsuit argued that DOGE operates like a federal agency, and is thus subject to the Federal Records Act (FRA), which governs when and how federal agency records must be collected, retained, preserved, or destroyed....
